we are a good way off the land, there would be nothing to do
but to lay in our paddles and wait, even if it lasted for a fortnight.
Still, as long as there is no change of weather, there does not seem any
reason why a fog should set in; but I shall not feel happy till we have
got the land alongside of us."

For three days the paddles were kept going, each taking alternately six
hours' sleep, and working together for twelve. Jack having nothing to
do was the most uneasy of the party, sometimes lying down with his nose
between his paws, sometimes getting up and giving a series of short
impatient barks. Early on the second day they were fortunate in passing
through a large shoal of herrings. Godfrey laid in his paddles and
attended to the lines, and in half an hour had forty-five fish. After
that they paid no further attention to fishing, being now amply supplied
with food. The herrings, too, required less water than the dried meat.
They fried them over the candles, and whenever their mouths were parched
they chewed a piece of raw herring and found great relief from it. Jack
was allowed two raw herrings a day; with that and a very small allowance
of water he did very well. On the third day a light southerly wind
sprang up, and they at once hoisted their sail and found that it eased
their labour materially.

"I should think we ought to see the land to-night, Luka; three days at
eighty miles a day is two hundred and forty miles. If we don't see it by
evening, we must head a little more to the south. Of course we cannot
depend very accurately on our steering, and we may have been going a
trifle north of west all this time. But it is all right, for the coast
we are making for keeps on trending north, and we are certain to hit it
sooner or later."

At six o'clock they had a meal which Luka had been cooking, and then
Godfrey said, "Now I will have my six hours' sleep." He stood up to
change places and let Luka come astern to steer, when he exclaimed,
"Look, is that a cloud ahead of us, or is it land?"

"Land!" Luka said after gazing at it attentively. "It is high land."

All idea of sleep was given up. Godfrey seized his paddle again, and in
four hours they were within a mile of the land. It differed widely from
the low coast they had so long been passing. Steep hills rose from the
very edge of the shore, clad in many places with pine forests. They were
not long before they found a suitable place to land, and soon had the